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PB Steak in Miami Beach: The Pubbelly Trio Strikes Again

When the Pubbelly boys open restaurants, they call them concepts. Their strategies, though, are not about location. It's not décor. Or cuisine. Or even target crowd. The concept, rather, is Pubbelly. The word describes not food or ambience, but brand. And PB Steak — the latest South Beach restaurant to...
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Rainbow House Now Painted; Westboro Baptist Church Responds

The timing couldn't have been better for the shenanigans local activist Aaron Jackson and his non-profit, Planting Peace, pulled off in Topeka, Kansas yesterday. If you managed to avoid social media or the internet in general over the last 24 hours, the Destin-based activist, along with friends and partners involved...
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Feds Cite Planck Institute Over Animal Welfare. Activists Demand CEO’s Head

[jump] In an email to New Times, Planck Chief Operating Officer Ivan Baines stated that its research--regarding "fundamental questions about the biology of the brain"--cannot be done by computer simulation and "requires the use of laboratory animals."  He stated that the institute "is and has always been committed to maintaining the...
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Allen West’s Lawyers: Let’s Interrogate Elections Officials

Since mock execution is not an accepted method of investigating election results in South Florida, confessed torturer and probable one-term congressman Allen West has turned to the next-best thing: a team of high-powered attorneys.See also:-Allen West Won't Concede, Demands RecountTuesday's results in West's contest with young Patrick Murphy for U.S...
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Rose Marks, Fortuneteller Accused of $25 Million Fraud, Now Targeted by IRS

One of the more made-for-TV courtroom dramas to roll out of Broward recently involves Rose Marks. The matriarch of a Fort Lauderdale family of fortunetellers, Marks schemed $25 million from a best-selling romance novelist and other victims, or so say federal prosecutors. The psychic herself has been proclaiming innocence since...
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Five Reasons Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Should Start Selling Weed in Florida

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony didn't just invent the quick-tongued R&B-rap style that spawned a thousand A$APs and Kendrick Lamars. They are also one of the most 420 friendly ensembles in the history of hip-hop. All rappers love weed. But none with the insatiability of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, who would smoke their own mothers...
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Robert Platshorn Asks TV Audiences: “Should Grandma Smoke Pot?”

Next time you swing by grandma's for some of her world-class oatmeal raisin, the cookies might not be the only thing that's freshly baked. South Florida's all-powerful Social Security set has possibly had increased exposure to the wonders of medical marijuana thanks to a new informercial. Since November, "Should Grandma...
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The Six Bad Bitches You Meet at Ultra Music Festival

Damn, Ultra Music Festival is a mad house. Everywhere you look, it's neon titties, the bottom half of an ass, or some kind of sexy rabbit hoppin' around with a lollipop in her cheek. Last year, we introduced "The Seven Ravers You Meet at Ultra Music Festival." But this time,...
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President Clinton’s Event Disrupted by Anti-Circumcision Activists

Update, 10:34 a.m.: This post was updated with quotes from Anthony Losquadro, executive director of Intaction. Surely, President Clinton was a little freaked out last night when in the middle of his event -- a Clinton Foundation Millennium Network talk in New York featuring the former president, Chelsea Clinton, and...
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First Look: Delray’s New Hidden Gem 3rd & 3rd Does the Harlem Shake

There's a new restaurant in downtown Delray Beach, but unless you hear about it through the grapevine, or are curious enough to venture beyond the boundaries of Pineapple Grove and down the backstreets north of Atlantic Ave., you may never have known it existed. With no exterior sign, the recently-opened...